INVESTIGATION – Their number has exploded in recent years, but so have reports of abusive practices. Between a law aimed at strengthening their supervision and control missions, they are in the sights of the authorities.
“I made an appointment for a routine check-up at a dental health center in Paris. The dentist detected two cavities and offered me a badly reimbursed treatment for an amount of 500 euros“, says Corentin, 29 years old. Surprised by this diagnosis, he went to see two other professionals, a freelance dentist and another dental health center who, for their part, did not detect any cavities. The case of this young thirty-year-old is unfortunately not isolated. Adeline experienced a similar misadventure in a dental health center in the Toulouse region. “The dentist discovered a cavity and offered to pull my tooth. He also encouraged me to perform orthodontic treatment, otherwise I would have dental problems later.“, she explains. When in doubt, she prefers to go a few weeks later to another dentist, who totally invalidates the diagnosis.
If these two patients fortunately did not concretely suffer ill-treatment within the centers they consulted, this was not the case for Catherine, then 55 years old. “They took me away almost all…
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